All of these nanomachines are managed and maintained by a central system: Sons of the Patriots (SOP). The proliferation of nanomachines, as explored in Metal Gear Solid, has given rise to a battleground that is controlled and tactically dictated using technology – so much so, that even guns are ID locked, accessible only to those whose injected nanomachines match the same ID. The idea of a nation-less army, that Big Boss’s Militaires Sans Frontières had set in motion in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, has been adopted and greatly expanded through the advent of Private Military Companies (PMCs) – personal armies for hire, who are never concerned with who or what cause or ideal they’re fighting for or against. HE WHO CONTROLS THE BATTLEFIELD, CONTROLS HISTORY: Guns of The Patriots is set in a world where the economy of war is big business. Admittedly, there are varying levels of elegance and more than a few McGuffins involved in achieving this. In any case, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots is an important instalment in the series, linking all of the narrative strands together, while tying up many of its minor and major loose ends.
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Arguably, the Metal Gear series has become more about Naked Snake/Big Boss, and the legacy brought about by both his cloned “children” (genetic) and his vision of Outer Heaven that so many others strived to achieve (memetic). While this scene doesn’t take place in the exact same way in the final game, this is one of many hints that this is the final chapter in Solid Snake’s story – or even in his life.īut, considering that he has has only been playable in four and a half of the nine canonical games in the Saga, is “The Legendary Solid Snake” really the centre of a story spanning over a century of fictional and non-fictional lore? Looking at each of the main Solid games, each is themed around the idea of passing things on to the next generation, the creation of both a genetic and a memetic legacy.
The very same person who, in many promotional trailers for Guns of The Patriots, showed an old, fatigued Snake contemplate the merits of inserting the barrel of his gun into his opened mouth, with the threat of pulling the trigger. Of course, this is the same videogame auteur who maintained for most of the series that he’d never do a new one (only to do just that, several times over). As of now, Hideo Kojima has done just that, with Solid Snake’s fate left open-ended in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots. It takes a creator with balls to pull the trigger, to draw a line and say, “That’s the end of that”. It’s very rare for any franchise to wave farewell to it’s protagonist.